Academy award nominated filmmaker
and actor Paul Mazursky died of pulmonary cardiac arrest on
Monday in Los Angeles.
The Brooklyn-born Mazursky, 84, made his acting debut in
Stanley Kubrick's "Fear and Desire" (1953), and acted most
recently in television series "The Sopranos" and "Curb Your
Enthusiasm".
Mazursky was known as a versatile director and writer with
credits such "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" (1969), "An Unmarried
Woman," (1978) and "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" (1986), and
was considered one of the pioneers of the "anti-Hollywood"
generation which challenged the Vietnam War and focused on
unconventional film making during the 1960s and 1970s.
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